Hi Rainman
Yes, it can. As I told you, those instructions are for Views 1.5, and you seem to be running an old version of the plugin. In that last release we have moved files around to better organize and register them, so the handler name of this file has changed.
You can see the name used in your version easily. Open your page and tell your browser to show you the source code. Then look for "views-table-sorting-style". It will be declared in a link tag with a id="something-css". Well, that "something" is what you need to add to the function:
wp_deregister_style( 'views-table-sorting-style' ); wp_deregister_style( 'something' );
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Juan de Paco